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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 12:00 AM

Special delivery for mail-order brides

Violence Against Women Act now aims to prevent abuse by their American husbands-to-be.
Lynn Harris

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  • Thursday, March 15, 2007 06:17 PM

    Mail order "abuse"?

    I have never heard such narrow-minded bigotry in all my life, as I have in the responses to this article.

    I am one of those "mail-order" husbands. I met my Philippine wife through a column and we have been happily married for 13 years. We have two beautiful children, live in a nice suburban neighborhood and are both professionals. Neither she or I are a "commodity". Is every man who meets a lady through the Washington Post Personals, eHarmony.com or Match.com "exploiting" women and treating them like "commodities"? Why is meeting through a foreign introduction service any different? I am insulted by the innuendoes and stereotypes that are spewed by people who know *nothing* about the men and women who meet thruogh these methods. YOU are the ones who need to grow up and get a life.

    —Bob

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